Different Bar Poker Styles

I am going to be doing a series of blogs about the different styles of players that you will see when you play bar poker. I hope this will be entertaining and also educational. Maybe you will see yourself in one or more of the styles.

Tight to the extreme!

This style you will see in several different type of players. One is the person that is coming to bar poker for the social outlet and doesn't want to get knocked out. Another is the new player that doesn't want to make any mistakes and bring attention to themselves. The last is the ultra conservation person that is playing in a points league and just wants to make it to the points. Play with extreme caution. If they are in a hand then they have something. Generally only play top 10 hands and pairs and only to small raises. They will fold the best hand to a continuation bet if they feel you may have a better hand. If they call once then you had better stop firing or have the nuts! Downfalls to style. They rarely win because at some point they will not get great hands and they don't change their style to the blind structure. They can be bet off medium strong hands. You almost always know where you are in the hand with them. They generally only win small pots and when they lose it is a big pot as someone cracks their big hands. Up side to style! You get to play longer into blind structure and in a points league you will generally make to the low end of points. Players that don't play regularly with you will pay you off.

I would not recommend this style to anyone expect maybe to a beginner to hold-em, but in the flows of a poker tournament every player must go through a stretches of this style to survive.